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Subject: Re: Selecting a Processor

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 14:13:53 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 10:18:47, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 09:56:37, Svein Bjørnar Myrvang wrote:
>
>>I've been looking to buy a new PC, and seeing that processor-tests indicate that
>>processors show different performance depending not only on clock speeds and
>>type, but also on tasks performed, I'm left with the following question:
>>Which of the various types of processors from AMD and Intel are best suited for
>>chess engines? Has anyone done any systematic testing of their performance (with
>>nunnmark or the like), and if so, are the results posted anywhere?
>
>Have a quick look here:
>
>http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm
>
>Intel is currently not competitive when it comes to chess. The best
>price-performance ratio is currently a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (Sockel 939)
>for  about 100 $.
>
>Very good performance for a reasonable price is AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (about
>350 $) which is a dual-core-Processor which means there are two processors in
>one (well sort of). The true performance of such a processor is only achievable
>with Dual-capable engines (such as Deep Junior, Deep Shredder and Deep Sjeng for
>example).
>
>regards Joachim


As far as I am a Fruit-maniac and fruit is still monoprocessor, its performances
are on the par with all the AMD monsters on my Intel Centrino Dothan 755 2.2
laptop, and i have it running under a tree in my garden :-)

Marc



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